It has simply gotten out of hand. Journalists and now a global media organisation of repute, the BBC, which should know better, are becoming a tool for terrorists, even if unwittingly, by amplifying the faces, voices and stories of killers and marauders who are still operating with impunity across Nigeria. The public interest argument seems Read More…
The top three trending people in Nigeria in the first half of the year are Peter Obi, Vladimir Putin and Bianca Ojukwu, according to Google Nigeria. The online search engine giant disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. Google processes more than 40 000 search queries every second. It translates to more than a billion Read More…
A former Minister of Information, Mr Frank Nweke Jnr, has urged the media to enhance their professionalism and set the agenda to consolidate Nigeria’s democracy. Nweke made the call on Tuesday in Enugu while presenting a paper at the town-hall meeting organised by the Nigerian Guild of Editors for the media and Civil Society Organisations Read More…
Britain’s government will cut the BBC’s funding by ordering a two-year freeze on the fee that people pay to watch the broadcaster, the Mail on Sunday reported. The future of the licence-payer funded British Broadcasting Corporation is a perpetual topic of political debate, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government most recently suggesting its funding needs Read More…
A second set of broadcasting elite have been inducted into the Broadcasters Hall of Fame. The new batch of inductees to the Broadcasters Hall of Fame was released by the Broadcasters Guild of Nigeria, BGN. In a statement signed by the Chairman of the Guild, Ohi Ojo, the list includes two former Directors General of Read More…
Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola, professionally known as DJ Cuppy, will be launching her Apple Music radio show #AfricaNow on Cool FM on Sunday 17th January 2021 at 6pm. Daughter of billionaire father, Femi Otedola, Cuppy, is a Nigerian disc jockey and producer. Aside from her father’s lucred glory, Cuppy has been able to carve a niche Read More…
Larry King, 87, has been hospitalized and diagnosed with COVID-19. The longtime talk show host has battled many health issues over the years, including cancer Larry King is battling the coronavirus in a Los Angeles hospital. The 87-year-old former host of CNN’s Larry King Live, who is a cancer survivor and has heart disease, began Read More…
Ratings for Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Channel topped all news and basic cable channels for a fifth straight year in 2020, according to Nielsen data released on Tuesday. The network averaged 1.9 million viewers per day and 3.6 million in primetime – record levels for cable news channels – during a news-heavy year marked by Read More…
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari promised on Monday that the government would bring police officers responsible for misconduct to justice, after nearly a week of sustained protests against police brutality that were met by a harsh response. Police opened fire with live ammunition on Monday against anti-police demonstrators in the Surulere district of Lagos, marchers said. Read More…
A truck conveying gasoline on Thursday exploded at Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos, destroying several vehicles and injuring scores of passers-by. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the gas tanker explosion occurred at about 3.30 p.m. Although no life was lost as at the time of filing this report, 16 people have said to Read More…